Many things will still suck. But the media has a fascination and love for Trump-as-vulgarian that Vance simply cannot pull off. Even if he takes on the mantle of MAGA and attempts to be the Stalin to Trump's Lenin, the movement collapses without Trump pushing it, (see: Epstein backlash).
We'll still have fascists and antivaxxers and centrists eager to use transphobia to justify tax cuts or whatever and all manner of ugly things. But the media's specialest golden boy won't be around for them to debase themselves before, and the conservatives might implode in an orgy of power-grabs.